Data from poison control centers from around the country show a large increase in calls in connection with a weight-loss and diabetes drug. America’s Poison Centers reports around 3,000 calls in relation to semaglutide — an anti-diabetic medication — between January and November of this year, according to CNN. That is a rise of over […]
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) is pressing schools in his state to address fentanyl overdoses. Youngkin issued an executive order Wednesday calling for the superintendent of public instruction and the Virginia Department of Education to issue guidance requiring parents to be notified within 24 hours of a “school-connected” overdose, alongside other related directives. “The order […]
The Biden administration on Monday called for all U.S. schools to stock naloxone and to train students and faculty to be able to administer the medication in the event of an opioid overdose on their grounds. “In the midst of this fentanyl overdose epidemic, it is important to focus on measures to prevent youth drug […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a prescription nasal spray this week that can reverse opioid overdoses. Opvee is an almefene hydrochloride nasal spray that is the first of its kind to be used to treat opioid overdoses in adults and children over the age of 12. The FDA said that if the product is […]
According to Dolly Parton, there is a “really good song” of hers locked up in Dollywood that won’t be released until 2045. How can we be expected to wait that long! Today in health, new reports from the CDC found the drop in U.S. life expectancy in 2021 was largely driven by the COVID-19 pandemic […]
The average U.S. life expectancy shortened by seven months in 2021, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), driven mainly by COVID-19 and drug overdoses from synthetic opioids. According to a pair of CDC reports, life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year, from 77 years to 76.4 years. […]
The White House launched a new national dashboard on Thursday to track non-fatal opioid overdoses in the U.S. to aid in combating the ongoing epidemic. The Nonfatal Opioid Overdose Dashboard tracks rates across states and territories using information from the National EMS Information System. Collected from electronic patient care records, the dashboard categorizes jurisdictions as […]
By Robert PreidtHealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Opioid overdose-related visits to U.S. emergency departments rose by nearly one-third during the COVID-19 pandemic last year. That’s the key finding in a new analysis of data from 25 emergency departments in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. “COVID-19, and the […]